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Using Personal Monitoring Data to Derive Organ Doses for Medical Radiation Workers with a Focus on Lung / National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, author.
- Series:
- NCRP commentary ; Volume 30.
- NCRP Commentary ; Volume 30
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Radiation dosimetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 119 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Maryland : National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP), 2020.
- Summary:
- "The purpose of this Commentary is to describe an optimum approach for using personal monitoring data to estimate lung and other organ doses. The Commentary highlights specific precautions applicable to epidemiologic study of medical radiation workers. Such guidance is important as organ doses, along with associated epidemiologic analyses for both female and male populations are necessary to assist the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's need to assess sex-specific lung cancer risks and radiation limits currently in place for female astronauts noting differences between the medical and space radiation environments"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Knovel, viewed October 12, 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-944888-27-6
- 1-5231-3493-3
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